Artist Bio
Born in Havana City, Cuba October 24, 1963.
Josignacio has defined and drawn attention to a famous generation of young Cuban artists called by the critics as “The Generation of the 80’s” (The most rebel of all). His own technique “Plastic-paint Medium” and his controversial body of work have redefined international expectations in Contemporary Cuban Art.Josignacio, who grew up in Cuba, (is also often credited); with helping to refocus the Cuban contemporary art world from his native Havana to the Art World of Miami, USA, the city he adopted after defecting in 1989.His work has, (almost more than any other artist of his generation), became familiar via the media, particularly following his Hortt 38 Best in Show award wined in 1996, in the Museum of Art of Fort Lauderdale [an event that, at least in some ways, he relishes and uses].Josignacio has addressed the exchange in his own Erotic-Porno-Shows, which confronts the relationship between Art and Sex in a wide range of “aesthetical-perception” from merely crude-explicit-figurative to an almost abstract manifestation, his work frequently reflects the world that surrounds him via “The Media and News”, the real life of Miami and his own.His controversial shows named “Marihuana”, “The Miami Clowns”, “Liquid Sex”, “Hot Sex At your own Risk”, and his “Live Collages” are some of the “Hits that heated the Miami art scene”.Josignacio is an “obsessive-compulsive-worker”, proof of that is the amount of personal shows (more than twenty in almost two years!) he did in Havana from his first one in march 2, 1987 to his definitive departure to Mexico may 10 , 1989. Slowing it down in Miami because his economical situation only aloud him to survive. Despite of this, he has not stopped creating his works.Josignacio’s peculiar technique and his unique form to use it have derived a new visual effect, which have been a topic of study for many art students and art critics (some of them called “NEWISM”). Josignacio’s work consists in a group of series, which he has maintained open for more than 20 years. Some of them are Dualism Series, Abstract Series, Erotic Series, Tauromaquia Series, etc.Josignacio has been described as “The artistic representative of the Plastic Era” by Jose Antonio Portuondo, renowned Cuban intellectual, “Josignacio is a revolution inside The Revolution” by Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez and “Josignacio is a Natural Born Abstract”, by Dr. Kenwood W Moffett director of Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Florida.“…If God is everywhere and everywhere you find my art, then we have a lot in common….” - One of Josignacio’s reflections. Josignacio resides in Miami Beach, Florida